Venture Pulse Q2 2025: Global Analysis of Venture Funding (KPMG Private Enterprise)

Summary

• Artificial intelligence, defencetech, and spacetech accounted for the top global funding rounds, led by Scale AI raising $14.3 billion and World View raising $2.6 billion.p.2
• VC investment in Asia remained near record lows at $12.8 billion across 2,022 deals, affected by a ten-year low in China's VC funding of $4.7 billion.p.5
• The European Commission launched a startup strategy backed by a public-private fund targeting a minimum of €10 billion to foster AI, cybersecurity, and cleantech.p.49

Key insights

1. European startup initiatives were strengthened by the European Commission's public-private fund targeting at least €10 billion.p.49
2. Venture capital in the UK recorded its slowest quarter since early 2020, reaching $3.5 billion in funding.p.50
3. VC funding in the Nordics region dropped to a five-year low of $899 million in Q2'25.p.50
4. Canada's government introduced the $300 million AI Compute Access Fund to make computing power affordable for SMEs developing AI applications.p.36
5. The UK government pledged £1.5 billion alongside Nvidia to expand national computing power and build AI infrastructure.p.50